Infinity and No. 8, you have a lot in common: Neither of you has an exit. The Vikings placed $84 million worth of pressure on No. 8 Kirk Cousins, and the success or failure of 2018 will be entirely tied to him.

Three of the remaining NFL free agent offensive linemen you’ve seen the Vikings connected to through the past week would not mess up the Vikings’ positioning for a possible 2020 third-round draft pick through the league’s compensatory formula.

The Vikings have every luxury imaginable available to them at their new headquarters in Eagan, a facility so massive that employees were known to disappear while learning to navigate its 277,000 square feet.